Adam Brody reveals the one role he fought hardest for — and it may surprise you
Adam Brody really wanted this.
The actor, 45, sat down for The Hollywood Reporter's comedy actor roundtable on Wednesday alongside Ted Danson, Seth Rogen, Julio Torres, John Mulaney, and Jason Segel and revealed a role he auditioned for that he didn't get.
'I really wanted 'Blue's Clues' early on when I first moved to L.A.,' Brody admitted in a clip posted to TikTok.
9 Adam Brody during The Hollywood Reporter round table.
The Hollywood Reporter
Rogen, 43, asked, 'And you fought for it?' to which the 'Nobody Wants This' star responded, 'I tried real hard, yeah.'
'It was like 1999, I auditioned for it, I wanted it, I didn't get it,' Brody continued. 'But I would've loved it. It's a show for toddlers. But it's all of those early ones.'
Turns out that wasn't the only major show 'The O.C.' alum auditioned for.
9 Adam Brody dives into his career during The Hollywood Reporter round table.
The Hollywood Reporter
9 Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) and Seth (Adam Brody) in 'The O.C.'
Brody told the table he also tried out for the part of Henry Parker on the WB drama 'Dawson's Creek.'
The role ultimately went to Michael Pitt.
'I read with Scott Speedman, sweating,' Brody confessed.
9 Seth (Adam Brody) and Summer (Rachel Bilson), on'The O.C.' episode titled: 'The Chrismukkah that Almost Wasn't.'
FOX
'Oh, they wanted pouty lips,' Torres, 38, cracked.
'Do you know the role?' Mulaney, 42, asked Torres.
'No,' he stated. 'I just know the actor.'
Rogen quipped: 'He is pouty.'
9 Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in 'Nobody Wants This.'
ADAM ROSE/NETFLIX
9 The Netflix romcom 'Nobody Wants This.'
HOPPER STONE/NETFLIX
'Blue's Clues' debuted on Nick Jr. in 1996 with Steve Burns as the show's host. After the actor, 51, left the animated series in 2002, Donovan Patton took over. 'Blue's Clues' current host is Joshua Dela Cruz.
However, it all worked out for Brody, who landed the role of heartthrob Seth Cohen on 'The O.C.' in 2003. The series ran for three seasons until 2007 and starred Mischa Barton, Ben McKenzie, Rachel Bilson, Melinda Clarke and Peter Gallagher.
In the 2024 book 'Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History' by Rolling Stone's TV critic Alan Sepinwall, Brody admitted he wasn't thrilled with the material of the teen drama in later seasons.
The actor said that while he was 'polite to everyone,' he still made it clear where he stood while on set.
9 Adam Brody during Fox TV 'White Hot Winter' Network Party.
WireImage
9 Adam Brody attends the photo call for Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This.'
Getty Images
'I liked the directors and the crew. And I got on really well and I didn't keep people waiting,' Brody confessed. 'I would never scream or yell at anyone, or say anything f–king mean. But I think I very much let my distaste for the later episodes be known. I didn't mask that at all and I'm sure I openly mocked it a bit. So I'm not proud of that.'
'I started to be creatively less interested,' he stated. 'I blame myself for a lack of professionalism, and a disrespect to the work. In terms of engagement as a whole, I'll just say that they're different shows, Season 1 and [the later seasons]. Had the quality been the quality of Season 1, I'm sure I would have been a lot more engaged… The quality of it and my engagement went hand in hand.'
These days, Brody plays everyones favorite rabbi Noah, opposite Kristen Bell's podcast host Joanne in 'Nobody Wants This.' The Netflix romcom series was an instant hit and is currently filming Season 2.
9 Adam Brody during Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents 'The O.C.' Revealed at Steven Ross Theatre.
WireImage
'I think I was getting stopped on the street pretty much day after it came out and I was getting texts from anyone — my handyman, anyone in my life — in my phone,' Brody said about the show while on Entertainment Weekly's 'Awardist' podcast. 'I've never witnessed anything that felt quite as overnight and as pervasive as this.'
Teasing Season 2, Bell, 44, told the podcast, 'The world has been built out beautifully in a very grounded, realistic way. Because, look, you fall in love with someone and for a while it's just you and them. The world doesn't exist. And then slowly the world starts peeking in and you two have to coexist in the world that sometimes can be shocking.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
Mark Hamill is a 'Star Wars' icon. But he's loving his character actor era.
Mark Hamill is a 'Star Wars' icon. But he's loving his character actor era. Show Caption Hide Caption 'The Life of Chuck': Tom Hiddleston headlines Stephen King movie Based on a Stephen King novella, "The Life of Chuck" chronicles the life of accountant Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in three acts told in reverse. Even after all this time, Mark Hamill's still got the kids enraptured. Two years ago, Benjamin Pajak was 12 when he was going to film his scenes with Hamill for the new Stephen King movie adaptation 'The Life of Chuck' (in theaters now). Like youngsters almost 50 years ago, Pajak grew up loving Hamill in 'Star Wars' and 'I was nervous to meet the guy,' he says. 'Somehow that got out and they scheduled me a lunch with Mark and I was freaking out.' Hamill is a little amazed himself that this continues to happen. 'I certainly never expected to have the longevity,' says the erstwhile Luke Skywalker. 'Really young kids have no concept of time. They think we made those movies two months ago.' Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox After hanging up Luke's robe and lightsaber following 2019's 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' and a couple of de-aged cameos in 'The Mandalorian' and 'The Book of Boba Fett,' Hamill has had an interesting bunch of character actor gigs. He played ruthless fixer Arthur Gordon Pym in Mike Flanagan's Netflix horror drama 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and crusty yet kind grandpa Albie Krantz in Flanagan's 'Life of Chuck.' Next, he stars as a sadistic military man known as the Major in another King adaptation, 'The Long Walk' (in theaters Sept. 12). Pajak says Albie is 'the role (Mark) was meant to do': 'Life of Chuck' tells the story of ordinary accountant Chuck Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in reverse chronological order, and Albie is a wise father figure for young Chuck (Pajak and Cody Flanagan) after the death of his parents. Hamill says there's 'an overlay of grief and tragedy' in Albie, who's also an accountant, having lost his son, pregnant daughter-in-law and a grandchild he'd never meet. Yet Albie shows he's still got a spicy side when Chuck dares to call math boring. 'It touches a nerve in him and he is just rhapsodized,' says Hamill, who has a moving speech that was 'a bugger to memorize' and spent every day for a few weeks working on it. 'He lays his heart and soul out but even I thought how amusing it is that of all the things that would turn someone on to math, it's 'when you're looking at the stars, you're looking at the greatest equation in the universe.' That's who he is.' Albie is a definite contrast from Arthur Pym, one of the most heinous men Hamill's ever played in his career. 'I routinely play really odd characters in voiceover. I rarely get those kind of parts on camera,' he says. 'I was thrilled. Some people would be insulted that they came to mind when you're meant to play a soulless, sociopathic, evil person. But I loved it.' Hamill also dug his scenery-chewing role in 'The Long Walk.' Francis Lawrence's dystopian thriller centers on young men competing in a grueling annual walking contest who trudge along a highway: If anybody's pace falls under 3 mph, they're executed until only one survivor is left. Cooper Hoffman, Ben Wang, Charlie Plummer and David Jonsson are among the competitors who are 'the heart and soul of this movie,' Hamill says. 'I do my job, I torment them.' And during the holiday season, Hamill's back in the voiceover game playing the villainous Flying Dutchman in 'The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (in theaters Dec. 19). He appeared on a 2007 episode of the 'SpongeBob SquarePants' show, one that was distinguished for being the first time that Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway had worked together since 'McHale's Navy.' 'I'm a '60s kid and I was really excited about that,' Hamill says. Anytime Hamill waxes nostalgic in conversation, 'Star Wars' inevitably comes up. He recalls reading George Lucas' script and wishing he could play Darth Vader or Han Solo, and opines about his iconic co-stars, being 'wide-eyed and in awe' of Harrison Ford and wowed by wisecracking 19-year-old Carrie Fisher, who 'had the wisdom of an elderly woman.' He gets a kick out of people remembering him, too: 'I'll be in an airport and parents will say to their 4- and 5-year-olds, 'Look who it is, it's Luke Skywalker!' And they look up and they're just horrified. Like, what happened? This guy really let himself go! I say, 'Just tell him I'm Luke's grandfather.' '
Elle
2 hours ago
- Elle
What Comes Next for Marcus After ‘Ginny & Georgia' Season 3?
Spoilers below. By the end of Ginny & Georgia season 3, it's hard to predict exactly where Marcus Baker (Felix Mallard) is going. Of course, I don't mean that literally. We know exactly where he's physically headed. G&G creator Sarah Lampert has made it clear that, as his mother's car pulls away from the heart of Wellsbury in the season 3 finale, Marcus is bound for rehab. There, his family expects him to treat his worsening alcoholism, itself compounded by his worsening depression. He considers this directive 'bullshit,' and calls it such. His mom, Ellen (Jennifer Robertson), refuses to argue with him. Instead, she prepares for a long, silent drive, and Marcus turns away to read a poem that his friend and love interest, the titular Ginny (Antonia Gentry), has tucked into his bag. She calls it 'Sunshine,' and through its words she strives to remind the depressed, struggling Marcus that he is in 'there, somewhere,' like 'sunshine in the dark.' In an interview with Screen Rant, Lampert said that she has had the text for the poem 'kicking around for a few years now' and was only 'waiting for the right moment to place it. To me, that really represents where [Ginny and Marcus] are at right I think that it's very much a place of hope.' But hope for what, exactly? What comes next for Marcus, let alone for Marcus and Ginny as a couple? Rehab is only one step in a long process of recovery, and Lampert admits that there is also some 'hopelessness' to the finale scene, given Marcus's reluctance to seek treatment. (He 'doesn't feel he belongs' in rehab, as she puts it.) 'I just don't think, unless something changes while he's there, that he is in a place to really confront what he's struggling with and make progress and get better until he himself wants to do that,' she added. Mallard, for his part, thinks Marcus will respond well to the 'discipline and structure' of rehab, the actor told Netflix's Tudum in a recent interview. But the return to Wellsbury might be a different story. 'Going back into regular life, into these dynamics with these people he loves, and showing up for them in a meaningful way—that'll be a challenge for him,' Mallard continued. Ginny, of course, tops the list of 'dynamics' that await Marcus back home. She's had her own challenging journey with mental health, panic attacks, and self-harm, and she's recently yanked out a page from her mother's criminal playbook in order to keep Georgia (Brianne Howey) out of jail. She needs Marcus's support if they'll have any chance at a relationship that lasts. And Marcus can only give her that support if the ground beneath his own feet isn't constantly shifting. As Gentry recently told The Wrap, 'I love [Marcus and Ginny] both together and separately, but the protective actor in me, I want them to be in their best mental state they can be before they come together as a couple.' Perhaps not knowing 'what comes next' for Marcus is, in fact, the point. Ginny & Georgia—for all its soapy melodrama and absurdist murder plots—seems to understand a crucial point about mental health and addiction in the real world: Healing is messy work. Relapses are common; recovery is nonlinear. There's no way to know if Marcus will return to Wellsbury in his 'best mental state,' or if he'll wind up back in a similar destructive cycle by the time season 4 draws to a close. His twin sister, Max (Sara Waisglass), has accurately determined that he needs an intervention. Rehab might be his lifeboat, but—if you'll forgive the extended metaphor—he still has a treacherous trip to dry land ahead. For that reason, I'm hopeful Ginny & Georgia season 4 won't use his rehab stint as some sort of miracle plot device, shaping Marcus into the man Ginny 'needs' off-camera. Thus far, the show has done surprisingly powerful work in depicting the turbulent realities of mental health on-screen, leaning into the contradictions that make 'getting better' so fraught. There would be—and hopefully will be—enormous merit in showcasing the full arc of Marcus's journey, even (and perhaps especially) if it includes stumbles and false starts that further delay his would-be happily ever after with Ginny. Because his story isn't really about whether Ginny sees his 'sunshine in the dark.' It's about whether he can see it, too.
Tom's Guide
2 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
5 movies like 'Straw' to stream right now
A mother's love might just be the most powerful weapon there is. If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, crank that up to 11 when a mom's protecting her child. Tyler Perry's "Straw" dives into the crime thriller genre and packs in as many maternal gut punches as it does literal ones. After its release on June 6, the Netflix original skyrocketed up the top 10 movie list and holds the No. 1 spot as of writing. The intense psychological thriller is just the latest of Perry's hits for the platform. Taraji P. Henson stars as a single mom who can't seem to catch a break. Janiyah is just trying to cash a check at the bank so she can buy her sick daughter's medicine — except everything that can go wrong does and suddenly she's in a full-on hostage situation. Like so many mothers in this genre, Janiyah will do whatever it takes to care for her child. Looking for more thrillers with rage-fueled moms? From "Peppermint" to "Panic Room," here are five movies like "Straw." The 2018 film 'Peppermint' is basically 'Straw" if you double the body count. Grief-stricken mothers are just as fiery as moms actively fighting for their kids. Given that they basically have nothing to lose, action moms who lose a child are ready to savagely dish out the pain to the guilty parties. In 'Peppermint,' Riley's (Jennifer Garner) daughter and husband are gunned down. After the justice system fails to live up to its name, Riley disappears for five years. She returns with a fiery vengeance. The catch? She's now a trained killer. While 'Straw' is grounded in moral ambiguity, 'Peppermint' is more about the stylized vigilante carnage vibes. The movie turns raw grief into unfiltered rage, exploring the lengths a mother will go to avenge their child. In Riley's case? It's pretty damn far. Watch on AMC Plus Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. The dark, rainy forest setting in 2022's 'Lou' is a far cry from the bank location of "Straw." However, the movies could basically be cousins, sharing a similarly bleak tone. 'Lou' hits the same emotionally-charged nuances as 'Straw' — just with a few more knives. In 'Lou,' Hannah (Jurnee Smollett) is out of options when her daughter is kidnapped. During her plight to save her daughter, she has no one left to turn to. That is, until a reclusive loner named Lou (Allison Janney) reluctantly saves the day. As it turns out, she's CIA-trained. While 'Straw' centers on a mother taking things into her own hands, Hannah gets by with a little help from her reluctant new "friend." Between generational trauma and getting screwed over by the system, Hannah and Janiyah would be fast friends. Watch on Netflix Being trapped with your kids during a home invasion is bad enough, but imagine having to watch it from the outside. That's precisely what Shaun (Gabrielle Union) contends with in the aptly-titled 2018 movie "Breaking In.' Not only are Shaun's kids trapped, but they're held hostage by burglars inside a high-tech fortress. Yet that's not enough to keep Shaun from her kids; they need to break out, so she decides to break in. Shaun scales walls, dodges bullets, and dishes out rage-fueled ass-kickings to rescue her kids — all without backup (not that she needs any). Everyone who underestimates her is very quickly humbled. Rent/buy on Amazon or Apple When a heist meets a mother's revenge story, you've got the makings of 'Set it Off.' The film follows T.T. (Kimberly Elise), a struggling single mom who feels abandoned by a system that's set up to watch her fail. T.T. doesn't see any other options when she and her friends turn to bank robbery to survive. Much like 'Straw,' the 1996 movie hinges on the characters' desperation. If you ask them, when society shuts the door on you, it's time to break the damn thing down — with shotguns. Plenty of bullets take center stage, but heavy emotion and a relatable feeling of hopelessness are the real main characters. The cast of the F. Gary Gray-directed movie includes Queen Latifah (Cleo), Jada Pinkett Smith (Stony), and Vivica A. Fox (Frankie). Rent/buy on Amazon or Apple David Fincher's 2002 movie 'Panic Room' is a masterclass on the impact of simmering tension and desperation. Meg (Jodie Foster) and her diabetic daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) get trapped in a supposedly impenetrable panic room by a couple of not-so-bright burglars. As far as settings go, 'Panic Room' is simplistic in design, as much of the movie takes place in a small, enclosed area. Yet that only amplifies the tension. Meg's primal fight to keep her daughter alive is as stressful for audiences as it is for Meg. Not only are they fearing for their lives at the hands of intruders, but Sarah's lack of insulin is also a potent threat. While 'Straw' is all about moral complexity, 'Panic Room' is a raw, stripped-down depiction of survival instincts and a mother's protection. Meg declares war on the attackers, which is certainly something Janiyah can relate to in 'Straw.' Rent/buy on Amazon or Apple
